Westwing Home & Living

Westwing is a high-growth e-commerce business: Backed by well-known investors with over USD 150 mn. in funding and growing rapidly, we are the leading Home & Living eCommerce company in Europe on a mission to provide our millions of members with stylish furniture and homewares from well-known brands they love.

To enable our ambitious expansion strategy, we are looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with both deep technical knowledge and strong managerial background. The successful candidate will develop and implement a technical strategy for both the short-term and long-term growth of the company that builds on a centralized platform run from our HQ for international deployment in our 10 global markets.

Joining Westwing now is a great opportunity: We are a well-financed company on a massive expansion path and plenty of room for personal growth, professional development and high impact on a global scale.

The successful candidate will

Have 10+ years of demonstrated results in Software Development, Architecture and (Agile) Project Management, preferably with specialties in LAMP (e.g. PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework) and knowledge of relevant trends/technology

Familiar with high-scalability transactional environments

Proven track record in operating international platforms

Hands-on leader with bias for action; e-commerce experience (in international environment) is a plus

Be capable of leading and motivating a team currently 50 people, and growing that team to 100+ in the coming couple of years

Be fluent in English

We offer

A CTO position in an international company with a high-growth path towards becoming a large and profitable category leader in e-commerce

An opportunity to work with a high-caliber leadership group and a steep personal development path, while building a long-term successful company

An attractive compensation package (incl. equity participation)

Please forward in absolute confidence, a full curriculum vitae and covering letter to jobs@westwing.de. Location: Munich.